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This thesis focuses on travel and displacement writing by exploring this theme into contemporary
narrative in Quebec litterature. We study Voyage en Irlande avec un parapluie and Voyage au
Portugal avec un Allemand (Louis Gauthier), Vers l’Ouest (Mahigan Lepage), Dix jours en cargo
(Isabelle Miron) and Le sermon aux poissons (Patrice Lessard). By stating that travels don’t relay the experience of exotism and of discovery anymore, we make the assumption that the practice of narrating this new type of travels also changes. We analyse how this dysphoric experience of the travel reflects itself into the descriptions of the places, into the construction of a narrative, and into the construction of the identity. With the works of Michel de Certeau (The Practice of Everyday Life) and of Marc Augé (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of
Supermodernity), our analysis questions, in a first chapter, the perception of spaces and their
descriptions. Then, we examine more directly how these road narratives produce continuity. The
third part focus on the identity of the narrator, that tends to be constructed and deconstructed by
the landscape seen on the road. By referring to the analysis of images by Georges Didi-
Huberman, we examine in our conclusion how those different aspects of the texts construct a
« relocation » aesthetics in which landscapes and places become screens on which it is henceforth possible for the characters to project themselves.